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cn coin 45619

Connected to Type

CN Type 12888 🔍

Mint
Hephaistia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 386-276/261 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΦΑΙ
Design
ram standing, r.
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Symbol
torch (position: on the right)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 14.5 mm / Min: 14 mm
Weight
2.14 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_024

Citation

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 971, pl. 19  (c. 300 BC.)  ❐

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 969-971 (c. 300 BC)  ❐

o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Greece 7. The KIKPE Collection of Bronze Coins, Volume I, 2012 nr. 340, pl. 33 (c. 300 BC)  ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 61, nr. 291 (c. 386-276/261 BC; without torch.)  ❐

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 41 (Mid 4th cent. BC)  ❐

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 3 (346-258/256 BC)  ❐

Bloesch, Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Winterthur 1987 p. 118, nr. 1275 (300 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 45619, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45619 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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